[lug] Netscape 4.76

[Glenn Murray]

I am hardly an expert on this, but

https://www.fortify.net/sslcheck.html

claims to detect your level of encryption.

Glenn

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, D. Stimits wrote:

> I just updated my netscape-communicator to version 4.76. It says it
> supports:
>   This version supports U.S. security with RSA Public Key Cryptography,
>   MD2, MD5, RC2-CBC, RC4, DES-CBC, DES-EDE3-CBC .
> 
> However, it doesn't specifically state "strong" encryption or 128 bit.
> In the security parts of help, it also does not specifically say 128
> bit. Does anyone know a means of specifically testing it for 128 bit on
> a given SSL web page? In my old version 4.73 I believe I could do this
> and know with certainty a given page had 128 bit encryption. I would
> like to test not just my particular browser for the ability, but a given
> page (clicking on the "lock" icon in the lower left while at an SSL page
> does not seem to tell me exactly what encryption level is being used
> anymore).
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
> 
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